PDF weirdness / sending Pages PDFs to the printers

Hey!
I have problems exporting my Pages documents to PDF. For small fonts they look totally pixly when viewing. I'm not sure, but seems like it's only fonts under 9pts in size. Looks awful. Not sure what's happening. Also, when using the 'best' alternative when exporting the file size is a staggering 23.9mb. The 'better' setting yields a filesize of 380k or something. But I have no idea what exactly Pages does!? I'm used to be working in InDesign and this drives me nuts.
Also, has anyone sent a PDF made from a Pages document to the printers? I mean like offset printer.
I'm using Pages 3.02...
thanks

D,
I am using three (offset) printers with very few problems. One was when I used Pages Opacity function to fade a B&W graphic for use behind text. It printed too dark and made the text hard to read. The printer advised me to change the black color to gray color (rather than use the Opacity slider) which I did in Photoshop Elements. Another problem was using Pages new Frames. I chose the one with the ragged edges and the "masked" portion came out gray. Back in v2.x I had a few problems with drop shadows but that seems to be okay now.
These are all gray scale jobs. One color job I took to Minute Man Press and the result was excellent.
Another was done on a digital copier because it was such a short run. Again, no problems.
The printers all do the impositions; I don't have to do them for them.
The secret here is to work with your printer, ask his advice and if he can't handle your PDFs, try another printer. It can be done. (I make my PDFs from the Print menu and use the Save as PDF... option.)
Walt

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